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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • In the US, of 100 rapes against girls and women reported to the police, 18 will be prosecuted.

    Jeffery Epstein and his cohort abused hundreds of girls, and all anybody cares about is what powerful man might be embarrassed. Has anyone proposed or suggested anything to protect girls from rich perverts?

    From the founding till 1951, raping your wife was legal in all 48 states. And that protection extended in several states beyond the federal change. Some states even made common-law husbands immune.

    The Christian Bible considers rape to be a property crime. in conservative circles, girls as young as 12 are regularly married off to their rapist.

    The leading cause of death for pregnant people in the US is homicide.

    I think young women considering men to be a threat is pretty rational.







  • The monster is sympathetic until it insists on visiting all of it’s own sufferings on an innocent: his potential bride. In creating the monster, Frankenstein was ignorant to the suffering he’d cause. Not so with the Monster’s plan for a bride. The Monster knows full well that the “bride” will suffer just as he has; he’s counting on it. Therefore no mater how you judge Frankenstein, the Monster is worse.

    When Frankenstein and the monster have the conversation in the ice cave, the monster insists that his bride be especially hideous so that it will have no choice but the monster for a companion. Frankenstein is worried that won’t be enough to control a second monster.

    These are the only times in the book the agency of this “bride” are ever considered.








  • An (American) football team my family follows used to have a coach that got so upset over plays and calls that he would advance onto the field gesticulating and screaming, causing the team to get penalties.

    Did they council this guy to control himself? No. They got someone on staff to physically restrain him when he lost his mind. Like the kid’s only job was to grab the coach by the belt-loops and keep him off the field.

    I love this story because it’s about a masculine man engaging in a masculine activity who cannot be expected to control his own hysterics. I keep it in my back pocket for when the “men are stoic, women are emotional” BS comes up.